We spent a day at the Palace Green Library at the University of Durham, reading local histories of Seaham – pamphlets and paperbacks (either council-sponsored or self-funded) written by passionate and knowledgeable residents for little or no remuneration. We soaked in the details. We indulged our archive fetish. We…

A seaside town that borrows some of its aesthetics from other seaside towns – sweeties in jars, fishing nets look hopeful in an area where there are no living creatures. War. War memorials and memory. A greengrocer shouts out into the street. Doors with more doors. Permissions need to…